On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 04:03:02PM -0800, lcrocker@nupedia.com wrote:

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Hmmm. Now I think that some general method would be more useful: &katakana_a; &kanji_b; &hebrew_c; or &cyrilic_d;

If and when the W3C ever /standardizes/ these as HTML named entity references, we might use them. Until then, I think it's better to be able to point to an officially sanctioned doc and say "we support these", and let people complain the the standards body. 0

W3C standarizes HTML, and I'm talking about Wiki markup. Wiki named entities will be converted into HTML numeric entities on output, so they have nothing to do with HTML.